Let's workshop this poem picturing a capitalism more aligned to public good than today, where—with fridges designed for break—it is easy to suspect coverups of cancer cures to protect corporate profit
(Micro)plastics
We all know capitalism
need not look like this:
Maytag washers,
Kelvinator fridges,
once hummed
with generational longevity,
designed to slither
by word of mouth
into the very notion of home
(not to bust, again,
the floor of acceptable
obsolescence).
“We need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”—Kafka (against the safe-space cancel culture pushed by anti-art bullies, left and right)